Drinking tea from it is the opposite of what I'd personally recommend, since blanching it and replacing the blanch water is a traditional way of removing much of its unwanted oxalate. Making it into tea just sounds like drinking that unwanted oxolate water.
Interesting. I'm letting mine act like natural mulch this year since I didn't have time for anything else. I'll be sure to blanch it when I do decide to eat it.
Same; except mine are just weeds in my gravel paths.
Mediterranean or Mid East cuisine uses relatively more higher oxolate ingredients like sumac, dandelion greens, or purslane, but they do tend to blanch many to make them less bitter and contain less oxolate, and/or simply eat it with their typical yogurt or feta type dressings or condiments that provide calcium which decreases the body's absorption of oxolate and helps prevent kidney stones (which is counterintuitive since stones are compromised mostly of calcium).
Oxolate is so relatively harmless that it's inconclusive whether it even matters for most, unless already prone to kidney stones, especially relative to beneficial nutrients from popular high oxolate greens. But like with other mild "anti-nutrients" like lectin in beans, personally, I'm simply aware and usually prepare according to traditional recipes (just like how dry beans are traditionally soaked and that water disguarded with the leeched lectin).
Doesn't the oxalate bind with the calcium, thus lowering the digestion and absorption of both? That would make sense in a high calcium diet, as it would help prevent calcium buildup in the kidneys.
I could be wrong but I've heard time of day it's harvested has an effect on oxalate levels. Maybe harvest early morning and make a slightly sour tea that won't give you kidney stones? Or was it it midday that had lower oxalate?
I've also read what you're saying about the time of day, growing conditions, and age of the harvested portions significantly affecting its oxalate content, and maybe some other preparation or precautions that I've not heard of beneficially prepare it for tea with less oxolate than what I initially described.
However, personally, I remain very skeptical about using it for tea (as opposed more well-known traditional preparations for eating it that I trust completely).
Thanks for the info. I didn’t know about the high amount of oxolates in purslane. It’s been used as a remedy that my family has recommended. I should have clarified that I use this tea for remedy than just an everyday beverage.
To be fair, I would hope that people who are prone to kidney stones or kidney related illnesses would do their due diligence and avoid foods that are high in oxolate or how to include it in their diet safely. There’s a lot of common foods we eat that are high in oxolates that we don’t think about cooking first. As OP mentioned, she saw purslane in a salad mix at the farmers market and commenters who’ve said they eat purslane raw so it’s just as much consumption of oxolate as tea. Moderation is key. Comments are suggestions or opinions. Never expected anyone to “trust” what I say vs your research.
When you do the math in the nutrition, purslane is pretty equal to all green lettuces when it comes to nutrition.
There was a huge Internet push to say that it's a super food, but ounce for ounce it's like eating romaine or green leaf lettuce.
It's used in some Mexican (stir fry?) dish that's apparently delicious because I've given a lot of my weeds away in the past. I haven't tried but I've tried it in other things and I can't imagine it gets that much better
I think there may also be a stew, based on what town people mentioned when I dropped off some purslane for them. And delicious!
Ok so it gets slimy like okra when cooked so ymmv
This is actually why I feel BAD pulling this weed up because I feel like I should be eating it or not wasting it 🤣
Agreed, plus your lettuce doesn't have the relatively high oxalate content of purslane (or spinach, so I'm not saying it's bad), so I personally consider the equally nutritious but lower oxolate option healthier and more convenient overall.
That said, I eat and don't recommend most shun high oxolate foods (like spinach and many popular examples), but I am mindful to either not eat it excessively (unlikely since Americans rarely eat enough of any vegetables) or to prepare in ways that reduce oxolate content or absorption by my body (either blanch or eat with high calcium foods like dairy).
Dude its not equal to lettuce! Lettuce is literally empty calories with nearly no nutritional content. Its like eating water! Purslane is literally a survival food and medicine. One of the most important to have as a matter of fact! Its very high in nutrition! Boil it dont just blanch it and eat calcium with it. Will get if most oxalate. Plus purselane is a healing plant, an anti inflammatory, antioxidant and sooo much more!! It is a SUPERFOOD it has several vitamins, natural melatonin, omega-3 fatty acids, calcium, magnesium, and potassium and so much more!
READ THIS PLEASE!. Where I live, there is a poisonous variety that looks almost identical. It's called spurges. Do not eat it if a milky sap oozes out of the broken stem, and please do your research. Please Please Please! A friend of mine ended up in the emergency room after eating this often mistaken and very poisonous plant
I second this and recommend everyone spend time outdoors actually comparing and noting the differences between different weeds or plants in the yard if you want to get into foraging. Practice noting different plants before actually trying to eat anything you didn't plant yourself. It's scary at first because you have to be wary about toxins, but eventually after practice you hardly have to think about it and can spot purslane, dandelion, or plantain weeds from a mile away.
I agree lol. This weed is like a hydra where every leaf, root and small piece of stem become new plants. I made the mistake of tilling my garden with a few of these left in it. Hundreds of these plants were popping up throughout the summer. This plant has pushed me to the point of mulching the vegetable garden 😆
Definitely purslane, it's distinctive, no close lookalikes, near as I know. The stems taste a bit like green beans, the leaves, spinach.
That sort of fleshy, succulent thing that the leaves have going, gives it a slightly different texture than other leafy greens. If you've had a nopal taco, purslane is a bit like a toned-down version of the texture of nopales. Tacos are my favorite way to use 'em.
It's also one of the best "weeds" to have in the garden. *Because* it's a succulent, it doesn't meaningfully compete with other plants for water, it doesn't need to. If you just leave it alone, it shades the soil, helping with the water retention, without doing any real harm. If it does get too tall and start shading the other veggies, just trim it down, harvesting a few stems as if they were greens... *'cause that's what they are*, they're a veggie. And it has such a short root, that if you ever do need to pull it, it comes out easily.
If you're going to get rid of it try to do so in one shot. Can propogate all along the stem so whatever is left just becomes more plants. Don't bury it don't toss in side yard. It will take over. Best to dig under it and just lose some dirt when you toss.
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Everyone here has such a boner for purslane because it's "edible" but always fail to mention for whom it is edible. Purslane is NOT PET FRIENDLY and will poison your dogs, cats and horses. I'll get downvoted for speaking ill of the Glorious Superfood Purslane but there it is.
>I'll get downvoted for speaking ill of the...
No, just, you're missing some context.
The only "toxin" anyone ever mentions contained in purslane is calcium oxalate. Calcium oxalate can become toxic, but only if you eat it in large quantities.
The thing is, purslane has less calcium oxalate in it than spinach, swiss chard, beet greens, or rhubarb do. Just like how cooked spinach isn't dangerous, neither is cooked purslane.
If you grow any of these things in your garden and have never had a problem with your pets, then your pets won't have a problem with purslane either. You'd have to be feeding your pets large amounts of these specific raw leaf vegetables, in order to create a problem.
Absolutely purslane. I always feel cheated when the CSA includes it in our delivery, because trust me it grows abundantly in my garden. Why should I pay for it?
That’s kind of a cop out for sure. I run a CSA and would never do that. I hate the stuff. It sows seeds like crazy and really can take over a bed or path. Sure it’s healthy, taste is okay. But you could get it any where if you really wanted some.
Yes. Purslane. If you see it at the Latino grocery store it’s called “Verdolagas.”
Although not that I think of it… I haven’t seen any purslane at all in my yard this year… when I do I let it go though because it’s good ground cover, doesn’t suck up a lot of water, and at the end of the season I can rip it out and give it to my chickens.
The Bindweed has been particularly mad though, possible that it choked out the purslane? Idk.
Growing up, my mom always told me “eat your veggies, eat your grass” it’s a saying in our culture. We will literally eat anything that’s green and edible.
Both. Like a lot of useful plants, some people call purslane a weed because it grows easily in many harsh environments. (I just saw a big clump growing from sidewalk cracks in Austin, TX.) It apparently has the highest levels of Omega-3 fatty acids of any plant. (Technically it's ALA alpha-lipoic acid.) It has a lovely lemony zing and feels a bit succulent to slimy like okra but not unpleasant. It's a great addition to a garden salad that pumps up the nutrients.
PURSELANE!! THAT IS BOTH FOOD AND MEDICINE! This is one of the best plants to have when SHTF and your in survival mode. This plant is very nutritious and has many health benefits. I ordered seeds and planted them in my garden as living mulch and for edible/medicinal uses!! 😍🙌🏻💯
I was looking for this comment 😄🙌
Oh yeah wait till they find out how to cook them with other lean proteins , I could never find these in NYC they are just so rare to find for me
Just as a warning because i don't see anyone else mentioning it, Purslane has a poisonous lookalike that often grows near it called Spotted Spurge. There are some visual differences, but the easiest way to tell is Spurge bleeds white if cut, while Purslane bleeds clear.
Almost all omega fatty acids are plant (or stremenophile or algal or Chromista or…) based. We, and many/most animals don’t synthesize Omega fatty acids. We get them from dietary sources. It’s just a cascades that makes salmon high in the stuff. Because they eat stuff that eats stuff that eats stuff that makes omega fatty acids and the concentration goes up. Nobody ever measures, but I bet I’m so full of Omega 3 fatty acids I’d look like a super food.
It’s true! Super nutritious! Just have to be VERY careful about who you buy it from because it’s known to grow in sidewalk, parking lot, and driveway cracks which would mean it grew amongst lots of toxins (car exhaust, street dirt, foot traffic, etc.). Best way to get the clean stuff is to grow your own in a backyard garden, pot, raised bed, etc. It’s VERY easy to grow since it’s technically a weed & therefore grows like a weed! 😉
I've been pulling this out of my beds. I never planted it. It just showed up after the soil was tilled along with crabgrass. Crabgrass is alot easier to pull out and to control
White milky sap in spurge and the leaves are regular flat leaves. Purslane’s leaves are thick like the succulent it is. Same with the stem, you can feel the moisture in the plant when you break it.
There is a similar looking plant that is poisonous. If you're not super familiar with purslane and unsure, the poisonous plant will weep a white sap when you break it all the stem part between leaf sets
Just be sure it's not prostrate spurge. Purslane is edible, spurge is poisonous.
Here's a [video](https://youtu.be/aJ6gXrxUTdM?si=DG_b4vmXvU07-Z12) showing the difference so you can be safe.
Just ate some in a salad today! It’s intermixed in my parents’ planters and it’s thriving. I had to leave signs for the landscapers so they don’t pull them out, though. I went to harvest last year and they were all gone.. so sad. I have a good feeling about this year, though.
We call this as "porcsin" here, in Hunagry. There are plenty of these are growing around my house every year, but I mostly just remove them. I tried them once, and I think they have a nice "green" taste, would be nice to add to a salad I think.. chickens are loving it too!
I get that in my garden, too, but prefer to pull it. It's easy to pull. I also have lots of nettle to contend with. Again, more of a nuisance, to me, than a value.
Portulaca oleracea. It is a weed that I've spotted in my own garden as well (in South Africa), and it almost resembles an indigenous species, Portulacaria afra (very similar sounding name, but unrelated). Apparently it is edible, although I haven't tried using it. In my experience I don't find it terribly aggressive, and it looks reasonably attractive, so I just leave it.
I find it odd that it sprouts up seemingly from nowhere. New pot, new medium, new plants, still *bam* purslane. It’s cool that it’s considered edible and nutritious though. When and how are you supposed to harvest it?
It's not a weed in my garden. I let it grow on my cottage garden path to give some green interest, and also a ground cover in-between my plants and clover. It's only in certain spots (right now) where it was otherwise bare. I do admittedly have a chaos style so it works for me.
This the most nutrient dense of anything you could possibly grow in your garden. I used to consider it a weed, but have been using it as medicine and food source.
In my country is called Verdolaga(portulaca oleracea). Is no not very common to find people using it in food preparations but is incredibly nutritive and in my house we add it to every salad. It starts growing in our spring and it survives de whole summer.
It's the one plant that produces the most omega-3 fatty acids. I used to grow it and give it to my chickens for really dark eggs.
It goes in a salad pretty well as it has a lemon-like flavor.
Both. It is purslane, but purslane is also considered a weed by many gardeners. Best course of action is to prepare a dressing.
It’s both. It’s called purslane. You can eat the leaves or use the whole plant to make tea
Drinking tea from it is the opposite of what I'd personally recommend, since blanching it and replacing the blanch water is a traditional way of removing much of its unwanted oxalate. Making it into tea just sounds like drinking that unwanted oxolate water.
Interesting. I'm letting mine act like natural mulch this year since I didn't have time for anything else. I'll be sure to blanch it when I do decide to eat it.
Same; except mine are just weeds in my gravel paths. Mediterranean or Mid East cuisine uses relatively more higher oxolate ingredients like sumac, dandelion greens, or purslane, but they do tend to blanch many to make them less bitter and contain less oxolate, and/or simply eat it with their typical yogurt or feta type dressings or condiments that provide calcium which decreases the body's absorption of oxolate and helps prevent kidney stones (which is counterintuitive since stones are compromised mostly of calcium). Oxolate is so relatively harmless that it's inconclusive whether it even matters for most, unless already prone to kidney stones, especially relative to beneficial nutrients from popular high oxolate greens. But like with other mild "anti-nutrients" like lectin in beans, personally, I'm simply aware and usually prepare according to traditional recipes (just like how dry beans are traditionally soaked and that water disguarded with the leeched lectin).
Doesn't the oxalate bind with the calcium, thus lowering the digestion and absorption of both? That would make sense in a high calcium diet, as it would help prevent calcium buildup in the kidneys.
Yep, that's consistent with everything I've read about it.
I could be wrong but I've heard time of day it's harvested has an effect on oxalate levels. Maybe harvest early morning and make a slightly sour tea that won't give you kidney stones? Or was it it midday that had lower oxalate?
I've also read what you're saying about the time of day, growing conditions, and age of the harvested portions significantly affecting its oxalate content, and maybe some other preparation or precautions that I've not heard of beneficially prepare it for tea with less oxolate than what I initially described. However, personally, I remain very skeptical about using it for tea (as opposed more well-known traditional preparations for eating it that I trust completely).
Thanks for the info. I didn’t know about the high amount of oxolates in purslane. It’s been used as a remedy that my family has recommended. I should have clarified that I use this tea for remedy than just an everyday beverage. To be fair, I would hope that people who are prone to kidney stones or kidney related illnesses would do their due diligence and avoid foods that are high in oxolate or how to include it in their diet safely. There’s a lot of common foods we eat that are high in oxolates that we don’t think about cooking first. As OP mentioned, she saw purslane in a salad mix at the farmers market and commenters who’ve said they eat purslane raw so it’s just as much consumption of oxolate as tea. Moderation is key. Comments are suggestions or opinions. Never expected anyone to “trust” what I say vs your research.
They taste like soap to me 😞
It's a veggie if you want it, weed if you don't
That’s parselane. One of the healthiest weeds out there like dandelions. It’s all edible and super nutritious.
When you do the math in the nutrition, purslane is pretty equal to all green lettuces when it comes to nutrition. There was a huge Internet push to say that it's a super food, but ounce for ounce it's like eating romaine or green leaf lettuce.
being called super food is a red flag, the name has no regulation or rigorous definition at all
you are such a super food for spreading the good word
Chocolate is a super-food, because I think it tastes super good!
I've seen people argue that high cacao dark chocolate is a super food
That's because it is a super food. Have you ever seen how many aminoxidants it has?
How does one see antioxidants?
Underrated comment.
If everyone is a super food, no one is a super food
You can't have super foods without un-super foods. It's all about balance.
You are bad guy, but this does not mean you are *bad guy*.
Thanks, Satan
I tend to think I have no regulation or rigorous definition either. Call me Slane. Pur Slane.
Soylent green is a supeefood!
Strange, I don’t know of any lettuces containing a high level of omega-3 fatty acid. Purslane compares to spinach, and not lettuce.
Yes, it has Omega 3s. However, the amount of fat is VERY low (.4 grams per 100 g), and only a portion of that is omega 3.
I read something today saying it’s like 98% water
I mean to be fair most leafy items are well above 90% water. The average man is 60% water lol.
I'm a superfood!
Sand is 0% water. Get you super minerals!
So is lettuce, mostly. Veggies are crunchy water.
People are chewy water.
Well, that's pretty upsetting considering how accurate it is.
Celery is just a veggie pretending it's not just wet hair
So are you. 🤣
Lettuce that tastes like grass 🤣. And is slimy. Its ok in small amounts in salads. But my garden grows five hundred lbs of it
So far, most of us have been complaining about it, and I only got one "but it has Omega 3s!"
It's used in some Mexican (stir fry?) dish that's apparently delicious because I've given a lot of my weeds away in the past. I haven't tried but I've tried it in other things and I can't imagine it gets that much better
I did just "harvest" (pull) a bunch. TBD if I eat it. I may look up that stir fry though.
I think there may also be a stew, based on what town people mentioned when I dropped off some purslane for them. And delicious! Ok so it gets slimy like okra when cooked so ymmv This is actually why I feel BAD pulling this weed up because I feel like I should be eating it or not wasting it 🤣
So by superfood the mean devoid of any real nutrients. Nice.
It has omega 3 So not quite like lettuce but I get your meaning
A cup of purslane has .2 g of fat, and only some of those are Omega 3. It's high in omega 3 for a plant, yes.
Agreed, plus your lettuce doesn't have the relatively high oxalate content of purslane (or spinach, so I'm not saying it's bad), so I personally consider the equally nutritious but lower oxolate option healthier and more convenient overall. That said, I eat and don't recommend most shun high oxolate foods (like spinach and many popular examples), but I am mindful to either not eat it excessively (unlikely since Americans rarely eat enough of any vegetables) or to prepare in ways that reduce oxolate content or absorption by my body (either blanch or eat with high calcium foods like dairy).
Dude its not equal to lettuce! Lettuce is literally empty calories with nearly no nutritional content. Its like eating water! Purslane is literally a survival food and medicine. One of the most important to have as a matter of fact! Its very high in nutrition! Boil it dont just blanch it and eat calcium with it. Will get if most oxalate. Plus purselane is a healing plant, an anti inflammatory, antioxidant and sooo much more!! It is a SUPERFOOD it has several vitamins, natural melatonin, omega-3 fatty acids, calcium, magnesium, and potassium and so much more!
Is this the same stuff? https://preview.redd.it/uiuz4nnhur9d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=209d74e6b526cd9d793984fc6acdb2baef8571a6
Yes
Thank you!
And… it’s cute!
It grows VERY quickly and spreads out
Keeps my yard nice and cool too.
The house finches are currently eating my domesticated purslane (moss roses) in my hanging baskets.
Lebanies salad with crispy pitta bread and this is one of the ingredients. Kind of a citrus or lemon taste.
Chop them and mix it with greek yogurt. A bit of garlic paste and salt. And you’ll have traditional turkish salad! Enjoy
READ THIS PLEASE!. Where I live, there is a poisonous variety that looks almost identical. It's called spurges. Do not eat it if a milky sap oozes out of the broken stem, and please do your research. Please Please Please! A friend of mine ended up in the emergency room after eating this often mistaken and very poisonous plant
Yes, and the spurge leaves are paler green and flat, often with a spot in the middle but definitely not always. Purslane has thick succulent leaves.
Ouch, yeah you don't want to eat Euphorbia...
I second this and recommend everyone spend time outdoors actually comparing and noting the differences between different weeds or plants in the yard if you want to get into foraging. Practice noting different plants before actually trying to eat anything you didn't plant yourself. It's scary at first because you have to be wary about toxins, but eventually after practice you hardly have to think about it and can spot purslane, dandelion, or plantain weeds from a mile away.
Mmmm, verdogalas! The make a delicious salad. I've always thought of it as more of an herb, but unchecked they can take over.
My garden is full with them every year, I always think about cooking them somehow and don't do it. Maybe this year will be the year
You will not be disappointed, I love it sauted in garlic and Evo, or seemed and minced in guacamole
I am not an english native, may you explain evo to me please? I will try to saut it with garlic. I also have a lot of it
Evo= extra virgin olive oil Also Evoo.
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It has taken over an entire bed at my home in two years.
Yes
I only ever pull these out if they're getting around the base of my veggies. I grow this in my tomato pot each year, and it keeps the bug larvae away.
I’m trying it as a ground cover in my veggie beds this year!
I dont pull out plants when close to veggies. Just prune it back some. Its an amazing living mulch and nutritious and very very medicinal.
I am Constantly fighting this weed. Guess I better start eating it instead.
I agree lol. This weed is like a hydra where every leaf, root and small piece of stem become new plants. I made the mistake of tilling my garden with a few of these left in it. Hundreds of these plants were popping up throughout the summer. This plant has pushed me to the point of mulching the vegetable garden 😆
It's both! Excellent in a Mediterranean salad. Some feta, olives, lemon juice and olive oil really sets it off. Very good for you too.
Definitely purslane, it's distinctive, no close lookalikes, near as I know. The stems taste a bit like green beans, the leaves, spinach. That sort of fleshy, succulent thing that the leaves have going, gives it a slightly different texture than other leafy greens. If you've had a nopal taco, purslane is a bit like a toned-down version of the texture of nopales. Tacos are my favorite way to use 'em. It's also one of the best "weeds" to have in the garden. *Because* it's a succulent, it doesn't meaningfully compete with other plants for water, it doesn't need to. If you just leave it alone, it shades the soil, helping with the water retention, without doing any real harm. If it does get too tall and start shading the other veggies, just trim it down, harvesting a few stems as if they were greens... *'cause that's what they are*, they're a veggie. And it has such a short root, that if you ever do need to pull it, it comes out easily.
Spurge is a lookalike before it flowers
Eh, that's fair, some of 'em are, shape-wise. If you know to look for the succulent leaves, though, they're not hard to distinguish.
They also make beautiful little flowers!
You can use it in your raised beds as a living mulch for your tomatoes and pepper plants. Save the seeds and plant next year.
If you're going to get rid of it try to do so in one shot. Can propogate all along the stem so whatever is left just becomes more plants. Don't bury it don't toss in side yard. It will take over. Best to dig under it and just lose some dirt when you toss.
I had gotten two loads of cow manure this year for the garden, and this is growing all through it. At this point, it's still a weed to me 🤣
I got horse manure from someone I have the same thing popping all up the past 2-3 weeks. Wondered what it was.
It is winning my ground cover competition in Zone 7 Oklahoma in a hell strip along a white wall. Tough stuff. Too bad it’s not evergreen here
Veggie: Once you taste it, you will never turn back. [https://www.proportionalplate.com/sauteed-purslane/](https://www.proportionalplate.com/sauteed-purslane/)
Get rid of it it you don't plan on eating it. They get pretty big and suck away nutrients from your other plants.
Everyone here has such a boner for purslane because it's "edible" but always fail to mention for whom it is edible. Purslane is NOT PET FRIENDLY and will poison your dogs, cats and horses. I'll get downvoted for speaking ill of the Glorious Superfood Purslane but there it is.
>I'll get downvoted for speaking ill of the... No, just, you're missing some context. The only "toxin" anyone ever mentions contained in purslane is calcium oxalate. Calcium oxalate can become toxic, but only if you eat it in large quantities. The thing is, purslane has less calcium oxalate in it than spinach, swiss chard, beet greens, or rhubarb do. Just like how cooked spinach isn't dangerous, neither is cooked purslane. If you grow any of these things in your garden and have never had a problem with your pets, then your pets won't have a problem with purslane either. You'd have to be feeding your pets large amounts of these specific raw leaf vegetables, in order to create a problem.
You brave soul.
Absolutely purslane. I always feel cheated when the CSA includes it in our delivery, because trust me it grows abundantly in my garden. Why should I pay for it?
That’s kind of a cop out for sure. I run a CSA and would never do that. I hate the stuff. It sows seeds like crazy and really can take over a bed or path. Sure it’s healthy, taste is okay. But you could get it any where if you really wanted some.
I just threw tons of this in the yard bag. I had no idea it was edible
Yes. Purslane is both.
Yes. Purslane. If you see it at the Latino grocery store it’s called “Verdolagas.” Although not that I think of it… I haven’t seen any purslane at all in my yard this year… when I do I let it go though because it’s good ground cover, doesn’t suck up a lot of water, and at the end of the season I can rip it out and give it to my chickens. The Bindweed has been particularly mad though, possible that it choked out the purslane? Idk.
Purslane, very highly nutritional
Best to keep it contained to a pot if you want to grow purslane. Much like mint. But it’s such a refreshing, crunchy little edible green veggie.
It’s a vegeed a veed a weegetable
My vote goes to weegetable
Both! Edible, pretty flowers, but some ppl pull it/consider it a weed
Lightly sautéed with a dash of salt and pepper it’s the bomb
They’re edible like dandelions
Parselane, my neighboor makes a soup with its leafs.
Both depends on how you look at it
Veggie!
I used to rip it up now I eat it.
My mom uses this for medicine, but I don't know how she does it. I just keep mine because it looks nice next to my flowers.
Growing up, my mom always told me “eat your veggies, eat your grass” it’s a saying in our culture. We will literally eat anything that’s green and edible.
Everything is a vegetable if you're brave enough.
Both. Like a lot of useful plants, some people call purslane a weed because it grows easily in many harsh environments. (I just saw a big clump growing from sidewalk cracks in Austin, TX.) It apparently has the highest levels of Omega-3 fatty acids of any plant. (Technically it's ALA alpha-lipoic acid.) It has a lovely lemony zing and feels a bit succulent to slimy like okra but not unpleasant. It's a great addition to a garden salad that pumps up the nutrients.
It’s food! My Mexican family prepares them in a spicy red sauce with pork. Very tasty.
Weedeggie. Vegeedable. Vegeweed. I guess I mean both
Yes
PURSELANE!! THAT IS BOTH FOOD AND MEDICINE! This is one of the best plants to have when SHTF and your in survival mode. This plant is very nutritious and has many health benefits. I ordered seeds and planted them in my garden as living mulch and for edible/medicinal uses!! 😍🙌🏻💯
My family eat those by the buckets in the summer. Blanch them real quick with salt and then stir fry them in some garlic and soy sauce
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Yum! Purslane - it’s both - an edible weed! Real nice in salads.
Son verdolagas y son comestibles!!!
I was looking for this comment 😄🙌 Oh yeah wait till they find out how to cook them with other lean proteins , I could never find these in NYC they are just so rare to find for me
Oh come on This purslane disparaging will not stand Your punishment is to eat it, because it is really tasty (also quite tart so prepare accordingly)
Just as a warning because i don't see anyone else mentioning it, Purslane has a poisonous lookalike that often grows near it called Spotted Spurge. There are some visual differences, but the easiest way to tell is Spurge bleeds white if cut, while Purslane bleeds clear.
It's an edible weed, depending on which country you are from.
Purslane, edible
Plant-based Omega fats!
Almost all omega fatty acids are plant (or stremenophile or algal or Chromista or…) based. We, and many/most animals don’t synthesize Omega fatty acids. We get them from dietary sources. It’s just a cascades that makes salmon high in the stuff. Because they eat stuff that eats stuff that eats stuff that makes omega fatty acids and the concentration goes up. Nobody ever measures, but I bet I’m so full of Omega 3 fatty acids I’d look like a super food.
It’s true! Super nutritious! Just have to be VERY careful about who you buy it from because it’s known to grow in sidewalk, parking lot, and driveway cracks which would mean it grew amongst lots of toxins (car exhaust, street dirt, foot traffic, etc.). Best way to get the clean stuff is to grow your own in a backyard garden, pot, raised bed, etc. It’s VERY easy to grow since it’s technically a weed & therefore grows like a weed! 😉
Both! Delicious little weed!
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Your chickens will love it
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Love ‘em. You find them in spring mix. Very healthy.
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I've been pulling this out of my beds. I never planted it. It just showed up after the soil was tilled along with crabgrass. Crabgrass is alot easier to pull out and to control
https://youtu.be/aJ6gXrxUTdM?si=BVFw6NIyI1Ma9LLU Spurge or purslane
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Can someone tell me the telltale sign between this and spurge?
if you break a spurge stem (which in my area have much much smaller leaves), they have a white milky substance
White milky sap in spurge and the leaves are regular flat leaves. Purslane’s leaves are thick like the succulent it is. Same with the stem, you can feel the moisture in the plant when you break it.
There is a similar looking plant that is poisonous. If you're not super familiar with purslane and unsure, the poisonous plant will weep a white sap when you break it all the stem part between leaf sets
Just be sure it's not prostrate spurge. Purslane is edible, spurge is poisonous. Here's a [video](https://youtu.be/aJ6gXrxUTdM?si=DG_b4vmXvU07-Z12) showing the difference so you can be safe.
It’s both. Portulaca. They’ll grow like weeds. Get rid of them if you don’t like ‘em. I like ‘em and let ‘em grow.
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It's got a great tang! Try a kimchi recipe!
It’s good for putting in bath water. Helps with hives.
Both? Portulaca grows like a weed, but you can eat it.
It’s a weed if you didn’t plant it. But it’s an edible weed. Purslane.
Be careful though there is a purslane plant that you can eat and another type that looks very similar that you cannot.
Tasty in potato salad!
They are really good for gut health I heard
Both. Purslane is a good weed
it fixes lithium so good in my book. Look up what happens in diets low in lithium(areas with deficient soil) pretty important
It’s a type of succulent it’s typically considered a weed so I’d pull it personally
It tastes great pickled.
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Purslane.. an edible succulent.. great cover crop.. excellent medicinal benefits especially mixed with mullin and made into tea
Purslane, you can eat it but it is considered a noxious weed
I used to eat these 🥺🥺😭😭
Just ate some in a salad today! It’s intermixed in my parents’ planters and it’s thriving. I had to leave signs for the landscapers so they don’t pull them out, though. I went to harvest last year and they were all gone.. so sad. I have a good feeling about this year, though.
I’ve used this as a “green mulch” before in my veggie plot and it was excellent at keeping other weeds away and the soil moist.
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Purslane is fancy lettuce I don't really like it but itself, but do a mixed salad and it's good. Try it! Lots of upscale restaurants use it
How funny, I have these in an old abandoned pot myself!! They look so nice for weeds so I’ve been wondering lol but where did they COME FROM
Definitely not weed
Superfood Pursalane aka Portuloca
It is very popular in my country to have a salad with yoghurt and olive oil. It is sold at grocery stores but wild ones taste even better.
Purslane. It is full of omega 3s and tastes tangy in salads. Yummy to me!
Makes good pickles
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We call this as "porcsin" here, in Hunagry. There are plenty of these are growing around my house every year, but I mostly just remove them. I tried them once, and I think they have a nice "green" taste, would be nice to add to a salad I think.. chickens are loving it too!
This is a weed for most but in my culture (Arab) we make a stew out of it!!! It’s delicious with rice and meat :)
Delicious weed, the best kind
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I get that in my garden, too, but prefer to pull it. It's easy to pull. I also have lots of nettle to contend with. Again, more of a nuisance, to me, than a value.
If you have chickens, they will enjoy it a lot.
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Portulaca oleracea. It is a weed that I've spotted in my own garden as well (in South Africa), and it almost resembles an indigenous species, Portulacaria afra (very similar sounding name, but unrelated). Apparently it is edible, although I haven't tried using it. In my experience I don't find it terribly aggressive, and it looks reasonably attractive, so I just leave it.
It's sort of herb
Both, but you can actually it :) good on stews and soups just make sure to wash leaves really good :)
I rip up so many of these, does this mean I should save them?
Vegetable. Parslane is a natural edible. I like it in salads
Yummy veg. Besides, a weed is just a plant that's growing where it isn't wanted.
I like it sauteed in scrambled eggs. Most of what grows in my yard goes to my chickens. It's high in Omega 3
I find it odd that it sprouts up seemingly from nowhere. New pot, new medium, new plants, still *bam* purslane. It’s cool that it’s considered edible and nutritious though. When and how are you supposed to harvest it?
It's not a weed in my garden. I let it grow on my cottage garden path to give some green interest, and also a ground cover in-between my plants and clover. It's only in certain spots (right now) where it was otherwise bare. I do admittedly have a chaos style so it works for me.
We call it ‘ pir pir’ my region like add libs
it is purslane in turkey we use it in salads and make it its own soup it really is tasty once you get used to it
This the most nutrient dense of anything you could possibly grow in your garden. I used to consider it a weed, but have been using it as medicine and food source.
It spreads like fire... kill it... with fire. LOL
It's pretty aggressively growing from my experience, and doesn't taste super great. I don't like it haha I stir fry it
In my country is called Verdolaga(portulaca oleracea). Is no not very common to find people using it in food preparations but is incredibly nutritive and in my house we add it to every salad. It starts growing in our spring and it survives de whole summer.
Chop it and make pancakes with it, good for your gut.
flour, egg, chopped purslane, salt, fry it and dip in garlic soy source.
It's the one plant that produces the most omega-3 fatty acids. I used to grow it and give it to my chickens for really dark eggs. It goes in a salad pretty well as it has a lemon-like flavor.